About
Liz Middleton is a sculptor and site-specific artist based in London. Following her BA in Fine Art she was awarded a two-year artist-in-residence studio from the Hampshire Sculpture Trust in Southsea. She then worked in operational roles for innovative architectural practices Future Systems and Heatherwick Studio before completing an MA in Historical Stone and Letter Carving in 2017 at the City and Guilds of London Art School.
I make sculpture to attain clarity and connection in life. My practice is intuitive, craft and material driven, often site-specific; reflecting the intersection where natural and manmade worlds collaborate or collide through form, placement or mark making. I work with the essential qualities of earth derived and synthetic materials; and I’m interested in marks of use created consciously or unconsciously, exposing evidence of interaction, touch or the passing of time. By capturing these subtle or stark relationships through sculpture I feel I’m attempting to establish a kind of order and balance, as well as intimacy and dialogue with the landscape.
liz@lizmiddleton.com
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Awards, commissions, positions
Civic Trust Awards’ Regional Finalist for The Spirit of King’s 2021
Yerth Threddle Public Art Commission, Ebbsfleet Green 2020
As The Romans, commemorative Public Art Commission for Kings High School for Girls, Warwick Schools Foundation, Warwick 2019
The Spirit of King’s Public Art Sculpture for Kings High School for Girls, Warwick Schools Foundation, Warwick 2019
Public Art Sculpture for Crest Nicholson Development, Witney Oxfordshire 2018
Artists Advisory Group founder for not for profit company, newplatform.art
Dedication plaque, Stowe House, Buckinghamshire 2018
FBA Futures Be Smart About Art Award 2018
Artichoke Printmaking Prize 2017
Masons’ Company Outstanding Work by a Graduating Student 2017
InterEsse Prize 2017
Taylor Pearce Drawing Prize 2016
New grotesque for St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle 2016
Hampshire Sculpture Trust Artists Residence 1998
University of Derby Purchase Prize 1997
Exhibitions
Fair Art Fair x Auction Collective, online 2022
Gallery Different + The Masons Company, London 2022
Air Gallery Open, Altrincham 2022
San Mei Gallery, London 2021
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral 2021
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries 2020
The Ingram Prize, London 2020
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2020
Gallery Different + The Masons Company, London 2019
Artscape Management, Manchester Art Fair, Manchester 2019
Women's Work: Pioneering Women in Craft, National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford 2018
Delamore Arts, Ivy Bridge, Devon 2018
Genomic Expressions, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge 2018
Clyde & Co Art Award, London 2017 - 2018
FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London 2018
Hampshire Sculpture Trust, Winchester 2002
Solid Sketch solo show, Ether Gallery, Southsea 2001
Open Studio, Southsea 2001
